Improvement in sectional images



port-ioned, with regard to e -bind together when they are all in place, these pieces .being ornamented on @tutti dtjiiiiw. f

BENJAMIN DAY. or WEST HoBoEEN, NEW JEEsEN.

Letters Patent No. 110,213, dated December 2o, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN SECTIONAL IMAGES.

The Schedule referred' to in these Letters Patent and making part of .the same.

Beit known that I, BENJAMIN DAY, of YV est Hoboken, in the State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Grotesque Sectional Image, a scientie and artistic toy, of which the following is a speci-- ,ieatiom The nature of my invention consists. in arranging .upon a back ground or iame ofv metal, wood, or other suitable material, Lvhich is provided with a beveling perforation, certainV ivedge shaped pieces of metal, wood, or other suitable material, so arranged and proach other and to the beveled orifice, into which they are to. be sc t, as to rnnlytheir upper suracesgvith representations of different portions of the him?" y or ot er esigns, p ing for the'image of certain definite sizes and shapes for each feature or detail of the figure or image, so that, by changing one feature or detail, or more, a seriespof grotesque images can be produced for the creation of amusement, and to enable `the artist to study the changes of expressiqn produced by the substitution of different features.

In the drawing- Figure A represents a grotesque sectional image, With all the pieces in position in the binding-plate.

Figure B represents the background or bindingplate, having in it the orifice B', which is of a shape determined in some degree by the general outline of the complete image, and is bevele Figure C, numbered l to 1l, represents the different parts of a grotesque image drawn in perspective, like numbers on the image, Fig A, representing vlike parts of Fig. C, with the exception that the features drawn in perspective in Fig. C are different from the features in Fig. A.

The parts represented in the numbered pieces of Fig. C are, as is seen, all` beveled on their outer edge, where they pass into the plate B at the oriee B', and the parts shown in Fig. C, Nos. 3, 6, 9, being the central parts of the image, are wedge-shaped or beveled on every side, so as to act asfkeys, and bind the other pieces firmly in their respective places.

It is obvious that, by means of -this invention, fiom a very few complete sets of featnres,`a vast ilumber of dierent images may be produced, and a great diversity of expressions studiedv by varying single or several features,thus making not onlyan amusing recreation, but affording a very convenient means for artistic' study.

I' claim as my invention, and de Letters Patent- The sectional image or bas-reliei`, each section of' which is made, upon its upper surface, to represent a featureor detail of the whole, in combination with a binding-plate, provided with a beveling oriice, all arranged and operating substantially as described.

BENJAMIN DAY.

sire to secure by A Vitnesses:

J. H.l K. BLAUVELT,

dfrorn front to back,

as shown in the drawing.

G. W. DONNE. 

